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Sex-Reassignment Surgery Does Not Benefit Mental Health
Posted on 8/7/20 at 2:26 pm
Posted on 8/7/20 at 2:26 pm
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A recent correction to a 2019 study included in the American Journal of Psychiatry reveals that sex-reassignment procedures do not achieve often-promised mental health benefits.
Published in October 2019, the study, titled “Reduction in Mental Health Treatment Utilization Among Transgender Individuals After Gender-Affirming Surgeries: A Total Population Study,” originally claimed that after having had sex-reassignment surgeries, a patient was less likely to need mental health treatment. But on Aug. 1, authors of the paper issued a correction stating that “the results demonstrated no advantage of surgery in relation to subsequent mood or anxiety disorder-related health care.”
In fact, “individuals diagnosed with gender incongruence who had received gender-affirming surgery were more likely to be treated for anxiety disorders compared with individuals diagnosed with gender incongruence who had not received gender-affirming surgery,” says Ryan Anderson, senior research fellow in American Principles and Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation.
What led to the correction? The authors of the study admitted that the Journal had received “letters containing questions on the statistical methodology employed,” which prompted them to reanalyze the data.
Mark Regnerus, professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and senior fellow at the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture, was one of the first scholars to raise questions about the original study.
In a November 2019 article for Public Discourse, Regnerus pointed out that although the study included data from 9.7 million people, the results of the original analysis the authors put forward hinged on the outcomes of just three people.
“That the authors corrupted otherwise excellent data and analyses with a skewed interpretation signals an abandonment of scientific rigor and reason in favor of complicity with activist groups seeking to normalize infertility-inducing and permanently disfiguring surgeries,” he wrote.
Anderson suggests that rather than encouraging those who suffer from gender dysphoria to undergo sex-reassignment surgery, medical professionals need to “find better, more humane and effective responses to those who experience dysphoria.”
“The best therapies focus on helping people accept and embrace their bodies,” he adds. “Rather than attempting to do the impossible—‘reassigning’ bodies to line up with misguided thoughts and feelings—we should at least attempt what is possible: helping people to align their thoughts and feelings with reality, including the reality of the body.”
A recent correction to a 2019 study included in the American Journal of Psychiatry reveals that sex-reassignment procedures do not achieve often-promised mental health benefits.
Published in October 2019, the study, titled “Reduction in Mental Health Treatment Utilization Among Transgender Individuals After Gender-Affirming Surgeries: A Total Population Study,” originally claimed that after having had sex-reassignment surgeries, a patient was less likely to need mental health treatment. But on Aug. 1, authors of the paper issued a correction stating that “the results demonstrated no advantage of surgery in relation to subsequent mood or anxiety disorder-related health care.”
In fact, “individuals diagnosed with gender incongruence who had received gender-affirming surgery were more likely to be treated for anxiety disorders compared with individuals diagnosed with gender incongruence who had not received gender-affirming surgery,” says Ryan Anderson, senior research fellow in American Principles and Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation.
What led to the correction? The authors of the study admitted that the Journal had received “letters containing questions on the statistical methodology employed,” which prompted them to reanalyze the data.
Mark Regnerus, professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and senior fellow at the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture, was one of the first scholars to raise questions about the original study.
In a November 2019 article for Public Discourse, Regnerus pointed out that although the study included data from 9.7 million people, the results of the original analysis the authors put forward hinged on the outcomes of just three people.
“That the authors corrupted otherwise excellent data and analyses with a skewed interpretation signals an abandonment of scientific rigor and reason in favor of complicity with activist groups seeking to normalize infertility-inducing and permanently disfiguring surgeries,” he wrote.
Anderson suggests that rather than encouraging those who suffer from gender dysphoria to undergo sex-reassignment surgery, medical professionals need to “find better, more humane and effective responses to those who experience dysphoria.”
“The best therapies focus on helping people accept and embrace their bodies,” he adds. “Rather than attempting to do the impossible—‘reassigning’ bodies to line up with misguided thoughts and feelings—we should at least attempt what is possible: helping people to align their thoughts and feelings with reality, including the reality of the body.”
Posted on 8/7/20 at 2:28 pm to Crimson Wraith
Given that they're profoundly mentally-ill to find themselves incapable of recognizing whether or not they're born male or female, I'd imagine that's a given.
Posted on 8/7/20 at 2:29 pm to Crimson Wraith
Who would have thought that cutting off your dick doesn't equate to less crazy. Water is wet.
Posted on 8/7/20 at 2:31 pm to Crimson Wraith
Only makes Plastic Surgeons more wealthy
Posted on 8/7/20 at 2:31 pm to VoxDawg
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Sex-Reassignment Surgery Does Not Benefit Mental Health
Given that they're profoundly mentally-ill to find themselves incapable of recognizing whether or not they're born male or female, I'd imagine that's a given
It has never made sense to me that when gender dysphoria presents itself the solution is always to mutilate the healthy body to match the dysfunctional mind.
Posted on 8/7/20 at 2:32 pm to Crimson Wraith
Would a psychiatrist tell someone with schizophrenia to listen to the voices in their head or someone with anorexia that they could afford to lose some weight?
Posted on 8/7/20 at 2:34 pm to BlackAdam
We took a step backwards when we stopped institutionalizing some of these disorders.
Posted on 8/7/20 at 2:34 pm to RollTide1987
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Would a psychiatrist tell someone with schizophrenia to listen to the voices in their head or someone with anorexia that they could afford to lose some weight?
Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if progs didn't do that.
It's all about validating someone's experience and avoiding anything that someone finds uncomfortable.
Posted on 8/7/20 at 2:34 pm to Crimson Wraith
So cutting off your dick is bad? Who knew?
Posted on 8/7/20 at 2:35 pm to RollTide1987
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Would a psychiatrist tell someone with schizophrenia to listen to the voices in their head or someone with anorexia that they could afford to lose some weight?
And yet, they throw around the word "transphobic" when they're forced to acknowledge that their particular mental illness isn't communicable, and/or that everyone in society doesn't share their delusion.
Posted on 8/7/20 at 2:39 pm to Crimson Wraith
Then why does the Govt pay $300K for military queers to have their dicks chopped off & turned into ugly hatchet wounds..
When I had to pay Blue Cross on my own dime for my own scrapes and scuffs accrued on Natty Guard time..
Insanity!
When I had to pay Blue Cross on my own dime for my own scrapes and scuffs accrued on Natty Guard time..
Insanity!
Posted on 8/7/20 at 2:49 pm to Crimson Wraith
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In fact, “individuals diagnosed with gender incongruence who had received gender-affirming surgery were more likely to be treated for anxiety disorders compared with individuals diagnosed with gender incongruence who had not received gender-affirming surgery,” says Ryan Anderson, senior research fellow in American Principles and Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation.
You don't say ...
Posted on 8/7/20 at 2:52 pm to Crimson Wraith
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“That the authors corrupted otherwise excellent data and analyses with a skewed interpretation signals an abandonment of scientific rigor and reason in favor of complicity with activist groups seeking to normalize infertility-inducing and permanently disfiguring surgeries,” he wrote.
Also, this is basically the definition of postmodernism
Posted on 8/7/20 at 2:57 pm to Crimson Wraith
They were brave to publish that.
Posted on 8/7/20 at 2:59 pm to Crimson Wraith
Did anyone actually read the conclusion of the actual study?
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In this first total population study of transgen- der individuals with a gender incongruence diagnosis, the longitudinal association between gender-affirming surgery and reduced likelihood of mental health treatment lends support to the decision to provide gender-affirming surgeries to transgender individuals who seek then.
Posted on 8/7/20 at 3:02 pm to tiger1014
The authors' own statement on Aug. 1 contradicts the conclusion from earlier:
Original conclusion:
Subsequent statement:
Original conclusion:
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In this first total population study of transgen- der individuals with a gender incongruence diagnosis, the longitudinal association between gender-affirming surgery and reduced likelihood of mental health treatment lends support to the decision to provide gender-affirming surgeries to transgender individuals who seek then.
Subsequent statement:
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But on Aug. 1, authors of the paper issued a correction stating that “the results demonstrated no advantage of surgery in relation to subsequent mood or anxiety disorder-related health care.”
This post was edited on 8/7/20 at 3:02 pm
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